Vehicle-spring



(No Model.)

VEHICLE SPRING.

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N. PETERS Phqlo lilhognpiwn Washinglon. D. C.

ALBERT LEONARD HOPFINGER, OF PORT CLINTON, OHIO.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 304,198, dated August26, 1884.

Application-filed A an 19, 1884. (No model.)

f0 all whom it'may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. HOPFINGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Port Clinton, in the county of Ottawa and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inVehicle-Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ofthis specification, and in which- Figurel is a perspective View of myimproved vehicle-springs, showing the same attached in operativeposition to the frame of a side-barbuggy of ordinary construction. Fig.2 is a perspective bottom view of the same, and Fig. 3 is across-sectional View of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention consists in the improvedconstruction and combination ofparts of vehiclesprings which are more particularly adapted for use onside-bar buggies, as will be hereinafter more fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the rear axle, B the frontbolster, and O O the side bars, of the buggy-frame, the above mentionedparts being old in construction and forming no portion of my presentinvention.

D indicates the rectangular frame or bodysills of the buggy.

E E represent the two cross-springs at the front end of the frame D, thespring E, which is nearest the front axle, being secured by one of itsextremities, by means of a hinge or coupling, e, to the right-hand sidebar, 0, near its forward end, the other end of the said spring beingrigidly boltedto the opposite or left hand side of the frame D. Thesecond front cross-spring, E, is secured at one extremity in a similarmanner to the left-hand side bar, 0, and at its other end to theopposite orright' hand side of the frame D. Upon either side of theframe D, near its front end, are secured the spiral springs F F, thelower ends of which I are rigidly secured to the upper sides of thesprings E E near their ends, which are connected to the side bars of theframe, as will drawings.

The rear cross-springs, G G, and spiral springs H H are exactly similarin construe tion, and are applied in precisely the same manner as thefront springs, E E and F- F.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings,

springs will readily be understood without requiring furtherexplanation. It will be seen United States The combination, with theside bars, G G, and frame D of a vehicle of ordinary constructheiropposite ends rigidly bolted to the op posite sides of the frame D, andcoiled or spiral springs F F and H H, secured between the under side ofthe frame D and the crossthe latter are connected to the sidebars, G 0,all constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner andfor the purpose shown and described.

presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT LEONARD IIOIFINGER. Yv'itnesses:

JOHN DETLEFS, H. B. MAGRUDER.

that when the mainsprings E E and G G are flattened or forced down bythe weight of the Having thus described my invention. I claim and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the tion, of the cross-springs E E and GG, hinged at one end to the side bars, 0 O, and having springs E E and GG, near the point Where In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereunto affixed my signature in readily be understood byreference to the '60 the construction of my improved vehicle-

